Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:06:21 -0400 From: Dan Jacobs Subject: WebTech Tues 7/18 7pm - B2B & XML Hi everybody. The July meeting of the ACM WebTech group will be held on Tuesday, July 18th, 7pm to 9pm, at the IBM SPC in Waltham. Directions and details will be available at http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech. This month's topic is about automating business-to-business transactions with XML. Adam Abrevaya from Excelon Corporation (formerly Object Design, Inc.) in Burlington (see http://www.exceloncorp.com) will give a presentation covering key aspects of the B2B problem space and some of the important factors in building B2B applications. I hope to see you there! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Automating B2B transactions with XML Abstract: Both the internet and XML provide powerful and relatively inexpensive infrastructure for implementing B2B applications. This presentation will describe B2B, some of the emerging B2B standards, and will discuss some details behind the architecture of scalable B2B applications. About the speaker: Adam Abrevaya is a Director of development at Excelon Corporation. He has been responsible for the introduction of several B2B products, including a newly released B2B Integration server. Other members of the Excelon development staff will also be on hand for detailed B2B Q&A.